InjuryBoard Ft. Myers Archives

• 3-year-old Injured in Hit and Run

  Christina Cole | February 17, 2007 2:38 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Police are searching for the driver that ran over a three-year-old boy "twice" in a hit and run accident.The driver of a white truck backed up over the boy and then rolled over him again, before taking off. The car was found blocks away from the accident, but the driver is still unknown.The boy is in critical condition but authorities report he is expected to recover from his injuries. He was...

• 2 Nurses Arrested on Numerous Nursing Home Neglect Charges

  Christina Cole | February 11, 2007 1:55 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  According to the Florida Attorney General, two nurses from Suwannee County nursing home have been arrested on several counts of nursing home abuse and neglect. An investigation showed they withheld medication from nursing home patients.The attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit began its investigation against the two nurses last October after they had received an abuse report from the...

• One Killed, 3 Injured in Rollover

  Christina Cole | February 06, 2007 12:12 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  At 4:42pm, a Fort Myers man was traveling east in a two-door 1998 Chevy on Wildflower Way, Florida Highway Patrol reports. While traveling at a high speed, Perez lost control of the vehicle and slid clockwise toward the shoulder of the road, the FHP reported.The left side tires then hit a raised concrete curb edge, causing the vehicle to overturn many times across the shoulder.The driver and a...